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A Mosquito Survey in New Caledonia and the Belep Islands, with new Locality Records for two Species of Culex

1954; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 45; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0007485300027103

1475-2670

Marshall Laird,

Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

The mosquito fauna of New Caledonia and the Belep Islands is discussed, together with some features of the larval morphology of Culex ( Culex ) pipiens fatigans Wied., C . ( C .) annulirostris Skuse and C . ( Neoculex ) pseudomelanoconia Theo. Culex ( C .) bitaeniorhynchus Giles, herein recorded from New Caledonia for the first time, is probably a post-war introduction into the Noumea area from Australia. Culex ( Lophoceratomyia ) fraudatrix Theo., recorded from Art Island (Belep group), has not previously been known from the New Caledonian area. From the mosquito and blood-smear survey in the Belep Islands, it is concluded that these islands, like New Caledonia, are as yet free from Anopheles and malaria.